Considering the high number of deaths and injuries due to preventable medical errors every year and the medical profession’s cavalier indifference to the massive human suffering caused by these errors and failure to take adequate measures to control them, speaking the only language the medical profession seems to understand–$$$–is a good first step. Airline crashes are rare specifically because airlines cannot pass on the costs of their mistakes to their customers the way the medical profession can, so it has a far greater incentive to prevent error and does a damn good job of doing so. There’s also the fact that pilots tend to die along with their passengers when they slip up. Not many doctors get fired for preventable medical errors which number in the millions every year. And no, I don’t want to hear how making sure prescriptions are written properly and saving 11,000 American lives per year by doing so is somehow more difficult and complex than maintaining a 747. It isn’t.

All valid remedies should be mutual. So if government has a never event, all taxpayers should be able to deduct its cost from their taxes.

Snow plow does not do our street. Space shuttle explodes. Overwhelming military fails to pacify a weak nation due to government lawyer interference with our warriors. Prison releases prisoner who commits a crime.

Deduct.